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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
7: ...|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
19: ...interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, particularly in grain. Other authors make the...
23: ...y one possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Ni...
29: ... number-theorist [[Euclid]]. From this division arose much of the later turbulence which began to mani...
34: ...is example was followed by [[Marc Antony]], for whose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who pl... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...pped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christophe...
3: ...ography]], [[navigation]], and shipbuilding. The most important development was the invention of first...
6: ...by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurate world maps prior to the age of European...
7: ...r close links to the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further ea...
9: ...[Mongolia]] and back from [[1244]]-[[1247]]. The most famous voyage, however, was that of [[Marco Polo... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
1: ..., by way of pre-eminence, ''o exegetes'' ("the expositor"), was a native of [[Aphrodisias]] in [[Caria...
3: ... [[Lyceum]] and lectured on [[peripatetic]] [[philosophy]].
16: ...undeveloped reason in man is material (''nous ulikos'') and inseparable from the body.
18: ... active intellect (''nous poietikos''), through whose agency the potential intellect in man becomes ac...
20: ... in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his ''De Fato'' and ''De Anima'' were printed al... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggeste...
9: ...thorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his ...
16: ...Jacopo Saltarelli]], who was a notorious male [[prostitute]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitt...
20: ...re, been assumed that he was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giaco...
29: ... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#rossiPage33], employed Leonardo and permitted him to ... - Florence (11538 bytes)
17: ...xperienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], du...
21: ...y's rise to become one of the most powerful and prosperous in Europe, assisted by her own strong gold ...
23: ...Piero]], who was shortly thereafter succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, [[Lorenzo de%27 Medici|Lorenzo]] i...
25: ...cal persecution of the widespread Florentine [[Homosexuality#History|sodomy]] and of other worldly ple...
27: ...of unusual insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
11: ... in India|religion]], and [[Indian philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kin...
14: ...th to the end of the 13th century AD, followed almost without intermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empir...
38: ...and monsoon. Although India may bear some of the most extreme geological and climatic features, these ...
40: ...opulation increase (making state level societies possible). The scenario of the Indus valley follows m...
47: ...mber of [[kingdom]]s and [[republic]]s emerged across the [[Indo-Gangetic plain]] and southern India d... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r his explorations made under the English flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol...
12: ... will have in saide ships, upon their own proper costes and charges, to seeke out, discover, and finde...
20: ...ewfoundland|St. John's]]. He went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for so...
22: ...ot find the mainland until his third voyage, in [[1498]], and letters referring to a voyage by [[Amerigo...
24: ...of �20 a year was granted him. The next year, [[1498]], he departed again, with 5 ships this time. The... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
5: ...ey to believe he was born of poor parents "around 1498 or 1500," and then worked for his keep in the hom...
10: ...ed, or the mythical [[Strait of Anián]] that supposedly connected the [[Pacific Ocean]] to [[Hudson ...
14: ...report of Cabrillo's inconclusive expedition was lost; all that survives is a summary of it made by an...
16: ...nta Catalina Island, San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island have all been suggested.
19: ... One such example is [[Cabrillo College]] in [[Aptos, California]], another is the portion of the [[Pa... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
11: ... in India|religion]], and [[Indian philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kin...
14: ...th to the end of the 13th century AD, followed almost without intermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empir...
38: ...and monsoon. Although India may bear some of the most extreme geological and climatic features, these ...
40: ...opulation increase (making state level societies possible). The scenario of the Indus valley follows m...
47: ...mber of [[kingdom]]s and [[republic]]s emerged across the [[Indo-Gangetic plain]] and southern India d...
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